Determination of total arsenic, total inorganic arsenic and inorganic arsenic species in rice and rice flour by electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry

Microchemical Journal

Volumn 108, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-6

  Pasias, Ioannis N ^a   Thomaidis, Nikolaos S ^a   Piperaki, Efrosini A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Arsenic species; Chemical modifiers; ETAAS; Rice and rice flour food products; Selective extraction procedures; Total inorganic arsenic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871503217     PISSN: 0026265X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.microc.2012.11.008     Document Type: Article

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